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anthropologist, poet, & postdoc in disaster studies @harvardcmes.bsky.social | work on disability & bodies, labor, resource extraction, agricultural transformation, disasters website: www.lnk.bio/eiremaz

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/05/2026
What does a university have that Google cannot offer its workers? Art History departments, Classics departments, History departments, Music Theory, etc. The humanities are what distinguishes universities in an AI economy. Universities defunding the humanities are digging their own graves.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/05/2026
In 2022, inspectors described a “cascade of failure” at one foreign factory. The FDA barred it from shipping drugs to the U.S. — then excused more than 20 drugs from the ban, despite risks to consumers. From our “Rx Roulette” series, a 2026 Pulitzer finalist:
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Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs
A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Today in UFW history—April 17, 1975: Farm workers called the short-handled hoe el cortito (the short one) or El brazo del Diablo (the devil’s arm) since it forced them to toil hour after hour bent over weeding or cultivating, causing crippling back and skeletal injuries. 1/
A historical photo of farm workers working using the short handle hoe
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 15/04/2026
Oceanographers, simultaneously the most mild-mannered and the most terrifying people you’ll ever meet
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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
As promised, we are excited to share @jeelyachar.bsky.social's response to the six CSSH authors who engaged with "the semicivilized" in last month's In Dialogue! Don't miss "More #Ottoman Heuristics – A Seventh Take on the Semicivilized." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04...
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e. irem az @eiremaz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Harvard CMES Disaster Studies Initiative Colloquium is taking place this Friday. Edanur’s illustrations for the Initiative depicts Soma coal miners engaged in earthquake search-and-rescue efforts, based on oral history interviews I have been conducting since 2024.(1/6)
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Currently on @criterionchannl.bsky.social, Tuktuit (Lindsay McIntyre, 2025) is an experimental short created using emulsions made from caribou gelatin and developers made from lichen. It looks unlike anything I've seen before. It's Inuit ecocinema that reworks film down to its chemical processes.
Image from Tuktuit (Lindsay McIntyre, 2025) Image from Tuktuit (Lindsay McIntyre, 2025) Image from Tuktuit (Lindsay McIntyre, 2025)
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e. irem az @eiremaz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Harvard CMES Disaster Studies Initiative Colloquium is taking place this Friday. Edanur’s illustrations for the Initiative depicts Soma coal miners engaged in earthquake search-and-rescue efforts, based on oral history interviews I have been conducting since 2024.(1/6)
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Dirk Bernhardt-Walther @dirkbwalther.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Creativity and aesthetics have long been studied as two independent topics, and yet there is growing recognition of the reciprocal ties that bind them together. A new Research Topic aims to advance a scientific understanding of the interconnections. www.frontiersin.org/research-top... Please repost!
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Frontiers | Exploring the Connections Between Creativity and Aesthetics
Creativity and aesthetics have long been studied as two largely independent fields. Despite this separation, there is growing recognition of the reciprocal t...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
These blackberry plants were planted in February. Workers are removing the weeds around it so there's no competition for water and nutrients so the plant is strong and healthy and produce good fruit. #WeFeedYou
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The new Princeton Science Library edition of Earthquakes in Human History by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders is now available! Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #EarthScience #History
Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Origins of the New by Douglas H. Erwin reveals how the forces of novelty & innovation are the same across nature & culture, continually producing new forms & refashioning the world as we know it. Out now (14 April UK pub). Check out a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Biology
The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology by Douglas H. Erwin. A visionary look at how novel attributes arise and become transformative innovations in nature, culture, and technology.
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Finally getting to the @criterionchannl.bsky.social's Sudanese Film Group program and it is predictably amazing. In addition to A Camel (see below), I just watched It Still Rotates (1978) by Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour, which depicts a new school in one of the deserts of post-colonial Yemen.
Criterion Channel banner image for It Still Rotates (1978) by Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
"Anna" shares, "I'm a student. During strawberry season I work in the fields with my brothers to help my mom with the rent. It is very hard because we work piece rate for 2 months-going as fast as we can. There's little work for the next 4 months so we need to save." #WeFeedYou
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Congratulations to @fbille.bsky.social, whose book "Somatic States" has won the 2026 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award, given by the Political Geography Specialty Group of @geographers.bsky.social!
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Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity
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Sarah Riccardi-Swartz @riccardiswartz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Folks, if you are in Boston/NE/NYC, we have an amazing conference next week with keynotes by Judith Brunton and Angelo Baca, plus two panels about endings and futures. Registration QR code is on the flyer. Please share widely.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
3/17/66: 77 Latino and Filipino grape workers -- six months into their 5 yr long strike -- set off from Delano on a 340-mile march, or pilgrimage, to place generations of farm worker grievances before the governor and Legislature in Sacramento. 1/2
A photo of the line of the march from the 1966 pilgrimage from Delano to Sacramento
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404 Media @404media.co · 15/03/2026
“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
How did the COVID-19 pandemic lay bare and also exacerbate tremendous changes in labor around the world? Check out our new series rethinking work: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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Where Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic World
This Hot Spots series zooms in on the images and re-evaluations of work/labor and changing position of workers in the aftermath of the pandemic. ...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 05/03/2026
In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from AI and dopamine-driven algorithms
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‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/02/2026
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 24/02/2026
Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media. Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Fellowship Opportunity! Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University - 2026-2027 Gilder Lehrman Center Fellowships networks.h-net.org/jobs/69786/g...
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Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University - 2026-2027 Gilder Lehrman Center Fellowships | H-Net
Highest priority is given to applications that are fully complete by Thursday, March 5, 2026.
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Spinoza died on this day 349 years ago. Here is what I wrote about his famous claim that a "free man thinks of nothing less than of death," and we can learn and not learn from our finitude. www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/01/noth...
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Nothing Less: On Death, Knowledge, and Affects
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Winning their first contract is another major landmark for Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, who made history in 2024 by becoming the first auto plant in the South to unionize through an election since the 1940s, and the first foreign-owned factory in the South to do so 2/2
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Sarah Riccardi-Swartz @riccardiswartz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
#cfp We are seeking papers for both a pre-conference workshop for New England-based anthropology PhD Students and early career faculty (March 27) and paper proposals for two panels (all ranks) (March 28). Due by 02.23.2026. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“I hope that the other plants here in the South are watching,” said bargaining committee member Yolanda Peoples, who works on the engine assembly line. “We now have our seat at the table, and it’s going to be life-changing for a lot of people in our plant.” labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...
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In Major Breakthrough, Volkswagen Auto Workers Reach Tentative Deal
Volkswagen had dangled a treat: a ratification bonus of $4,000, sweetened by $1,500 if a first contract at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was approved by Halloween 2025. But auto worker...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/02/2026
An advocacy group leader says regulators now rely on farmworkers to report abuse. But she said many workers are too scared to speak out for fear of retribution or loss of future work. “It creates an environment that’s ripe for abuse,” she said.
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The Dramatic Rise of Farm Labor Contractors Has Led to Rampant Abuses. Here’s Why Regulators Have Failed to Stop Them.
Experts say there aren’t enough state and federal inspectors to adequately vet whether labor contractors who oversee farmworkers are following the rules. Nor is there broad political support to invest...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It's appropriate on #BlackHistoryMonth we uplift Kevin's voice. He's been a Jamaican H2A worker for the last 10 yrs & is excited over the implementation of his UFW contract at NYs Wafler Farms. He's looking forward to getting the benefits his contract provides. #UnionsForAll
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
"Students with a 504 Plan in high school for psychiatric disabilities, such as those related to ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety, OCD, learning disorders, etc., might not always realize they are eligible for accommodations in college." www.greatlakespsychiatryandpsychotherapy.com/post/underst...
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Accommodations for College Students with Psychiatric Disabilities
Students with a 504 Plan in high school for psychiatric disabilities, such as those related to ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety, OCD, learning disorders, or others, might not always realize they are ...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/02/2026
‘A life gets its shape not only through memory and expectation but through the strong and enduring attachments that are its most important content.’ Thomas Nagel on how we understand our lives within temporality. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Thomas Nagel · Now and Then: Living in Time
Our lives don’t just play out over time: we lead them over the course of that time, shaping them as an extended whole...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/02/2026
NEW: Experts say there aren’t enough state and federal inspectors to adequately vet whether labor contractors who oversee farmworkers are following the rules. Nor is there broad political support to invest more resources to protect foreign workers.
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The Dramatic Rise of Farm Labor Contractors Has Led to Rampant Abuses. Here’s Why Regulators Have Failed to Stop Them.
Experts say there aren’t enough state and federal inspectors to adequately vet whether labor contractors who oversee farmworkers are following the rules. Nor is there broad political support to invest...
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Jack - amatica health @jackamatica.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Many diseases were once called “psychological” or “all in the mind”. Again and again, biology later proved otherwise. This thread shows clear cases where medicine got it wrong, then changed its mind once real mechanisms were found.
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Since the @sbworkersunited.org strike began, 16 more stores have voted to unionize, bringing the total number of union Starbucks stores last week to 666—a figure that echoes CEO Brian Niccol’s pay: 666 times that of a barista. Our editor Jenny Brown reports labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0... 1/4
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Delete the Starbucks App Now, Say Striking Workers
Starbucks barista Christi Gomoljak has been on strike for 80 days. Managers at her Disney store in Anaheim, California had taken away the workers’ restroom without consultation. “There was a note on o...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A crew in Mettler, Ca are pruning grape vines. They are glad to be back at work as many companies didn't did not have them working from late November until January. They share not having work made it very difficult to feed their families. #WeFeedYou
Workers pruning grapevines
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Advocacy, Inc. argues that as advocacy organizations are pressured to act like businesses, they risk ignoring the root causes of forced labor, allowing corporations to claim "hero" status while practices of labor exploitation continue unchecked in the global economy. ow.ly/zZTg50Y7PJk
Book cover of Advocacy, Inc.: INGOs and the Business of "Modern Slavery" by Stephanie A. Limoncelli
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
How people have reimagined the story of the ten plagues of Egypt, from antiquity to our own era of relentless catastrophe. Disasters of Biblical Proportions by Steven Weitzman is out now (31 March UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #ReadUP #History
Disasters of Biblical Proportions: The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World by Steven Weitzman
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Letizia Letha Bonanno @letha-b.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Cultural anthropology latest Hot Spots Series, “Where have all the workers gone?” is both "an empirical question that ethnographers often encounter in the field" and "an epistemological reflection on where anthropologists today locate labor, work(ers), and their struggles"
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Where Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic World
This Hot Spots series zooms in on the images and re-evaluations of work/labor and changing position of workers in the aftermath of the pandemic. ...
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
When Worlds Quake by Hrvoje Tkalčić reveals how quakes can help scientists to understand the mysterious inner architecture and ongoing evolution of our planet, as well as worlds beyond our own. Out now (10 March UK pub). Explore a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #EarthScience
When Worlds Quake: The Quest to Understand the Interior of Earth and Beyond by Hrvoje Tkalčić
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 16/01/2026
How did the picture of time as a line come to be so entrenched in Western thought, and what effect does it have on how we experience reality? This Essay by professor of philosophy Emily Thomas takes us on a jaunt through history to find out more
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When we turned time into a line, we reimagined past and future | Aeon Essays
In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/01/2026
ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited until it was too late. (Published Aug. 2025)
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Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It.
ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited unti...
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Ford CEO warns there’s a dearth of blue-collar workers able to construct AI data centers and operate factories: 'Nothing to backfill the ambition' | Fortune
Jim Farley has identified a crisis in the “essential economy” of overlooked blue-collar workers in the AI race.
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I would love to teach a class on the ethnographic film, but I doubt it'll happen at SU since we don't have a big anthropology department and it probably wouldn't be a good one for undergrad film students. *Sigh!* Maybe one day. Anyways, what would you all add to that syllabus?
Screengrab from Mary Hunt Johnson performing a women's Winter dance, Fort Rupert (Franz Boaz, 1930)Image from Trance and Dance in Bali (Margaret Mead & Gregory Bateson, 1952)Image from Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, 1961)Image from Reassemblage (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1982)
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
In 2024, we convened a group of 25 workers and organizers across the transportation supply chain. They traveled over 3 days and 600+ miles across Nevada to tour the frontlines of new lithium mining in the US. Watch our new documentary that follows their journey. climateandcommunity.org/nvfilm
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Supply Chain Solidarity: Lessons from the Lithium Frontlines - Climate and Community Institute
Workers and organizers, representing different parts of the transportation supply chain, journey across Nevada to learn first-hand about the impacts of lithium mining for electric vehicle batteries.
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Association for Political and Legal Anthropology / PoLAR journal @polar-journal.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
PoLAR DEF Anna Kirstine Schirrer's research with CARICOM appeared in the PoLAR this year. And her edited series on reparations is free to read on PoLAR Online: polarjournal.org/2020/07/31/s...
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Special Series: Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism
Emergent Conversation 10 This PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation, On Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism, engages anthropological and socio-legal scholars to understand the challenges that new …
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"In the first six months of 2025, there were 57% more farm bankruptcies than during the same period last year, according to United States Courts." www.cbsnews.com/news/us-farm...
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Generations work on family farms. With costs high and prices low, farmers worry they may lose it all.
Generations have worked family farms in the U.S. Now, with costs high, prices low and tariffs causing additional difficulties, farmers say they're at risk of losing it all.
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Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The maps of Ursula K Le Guin reveal a fascinating insight into world-building in fantasy fiction. theconversation.com/the-maps-of-...
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The maps of Ursula K Le Guin reveal a fascinating insight into world-building in fantasy fiction
This fascinating show offers visitors a deeper sense of Le Guin’s maps as world-making and storytelling devices.
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"Kaboom!"/"Extinction, Fast and Slow" Director emerita Lorraine Daston is featured in the current issue of @lrb.co.uk and on The LRB Podcast 🌋 "Extinction is a protracted, uneven process, and hard to square with our mental picture of abrupt catastrophe." 🗞️ bit.ly/3L72ddi 🎧 bit.ly/4huQXd #HistSci
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Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction
Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
On Oct. 30th, 5:30 PM, Wenner-Gren President, Danilyn Rutherford will be discussing her new book, "Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World," with Dagmar Herzog. CUNY Graduate Center, Brockway Room (6402), 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
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